decompression
1. restoring compressed information to its normal form for use or display • Ant: compression • Derivationally related forms: decompress • Hypernyms: decoding, decryption, decipherment 2. relieving pressure (especially bringing a compressed person gradually back to atmospheric pressure) • Syn: decompressing • Ant: compression • Derivationally related forms: decompress (for: decompressing), decompress • Hypernyms: easing, easement, alleviation, relief
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